Hey everyone 👋 We have a bunch of events & talks coming up this and next month in San Francisco. If you're in town, we invite you to come meet the team building Daft! SF Systems Meetup - Tues 9/17 | 6pm - 9pm Our engineers @Colin Ho and @Desmond Cheong will be speaking at SF Systems Meetup! Life After Apache Spark - Why & How We’re Building the Daft Query Engine. https://lu.ma/24nkfm4c Ray Summit - Tues 10/1 | 3:45pm City Storage Systems' data processing and ETL tasks, previously managed on separate Spark clusters, now leverage Daft’s intuitive DataFrame interface — surpassing PySpark’s capabilities 💪 Tune in to their session at Ray Summit to learn about their end-to-end ML pipeline featuring Ray & Daft. https://raysummit.anyscale.com/flow/anyscale/raysummit2024/landing/page/sessioncatalog/session/1714086942736001a7yi Ray Summit - Wed 10/2 | 4:30pm Whether you’re dealing with data exploration, cleaning, or training ML/AI models, don't miss Jay's lightning talk #RaySummit - Unlocking ETL & Analytics on Ray with Daft. Daft-on-Ray even outperforms existing solutions 👀, tune in to see the results! https://raysummit.anyscale.com/flow/anyscale/raysummit2024/sessioncatalog/page/sessions/session/1714694410381001gU6g Multimodal Data with Modern Tools Meetup - Tues 10/8 | 5pm - 8pm Join us for Multimodal Data with Modern Tools Meetup and delve into innovative solutions tackling the growing demands for AI/ML data infrastructure that can effectively handle diverse types of unstructured data such as text, documents, images, and even video. https://lu.ma/x5j5bt51 From Data to Deployment: Lessons from AI Founders - Thur 10/10 | 5pm - 8pm Join us for an exclusive panel discussion featuring AI leaders & startup founders from Happyrobot, Overview AI, Mozart Data, and lastly Eventual as they share their hands-on experiences with building robust data pipelines, managing complex datasets, and overcoming challenges with scaling AI solutions. https://lu.ma/pf00o477